Improved felt-shoe



REESE EVANS, OF MILL'IOWN, NEW JERSEY. Lem/rs Patent No. 88,860, am@ Amiy 13, 1869.

IMPRO'V'ED FELT-SHOE.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part o! the sanie- To all whom 'it lIna/y concern.-

Be it known that I, REESE Evans, of Milltown, in the county of Middlesex, in the State of New Jersey, have invented a. new and improved Mode of Fastening Together the Vamp and Quarter of Shoes composed 0f Felt andRubber; and I do hereby deelare that the following is a full and exaet'deseription thereof, reference being had to the aecompanying drawings, ,and to the letters of refe-renee marked thereon, in which- Figure lis a view of the upper portions of a felt and rubber shoe, the quarter being turned down so as t0 show my mode of connecting it to the vamp.

Figure 2 is a similar view of the opposite side.

Figure 3 is also a view of the upper part of the same kind of a shoe, representing the quarter and vamp stitched together, the usual way of connecting them.

This invention relates to an improvement iu shoes made of felt and rubber.

The object of the invention is to secure the quarter to the vamp, so that it will notbe so easily loosened as it would lwere it stitched in the usual way.

This object is attained by forming the quarter -with v a small piece of felt on each side, with the lower end turned up and cemented to the vamp.

To enable those skilled. in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed. to dese 'be it.

A represents the vamp of a shoe, made of felt and rubber.

.Bis the quarter, the inner sides of which last, or where the strap and buckle come, have strips of felt cemented thereto, as shown at O, in iig. 1 and g. 2.

These pieces are made fast to the quarter as far down as where the stitching usually comes, when they are turned up on the vamp and cemented thereto, as represented at D, in iig. 1 and iig. 2..

'The usual way of stitching the quarter to the vamp,

as shown at E, in fig. 3, is liable to rip apart, while my invention cannot. r

What I claim as myinvention, and desire to se.

eure byv Letters Patent, is

The mode of fastening together the quarter and vamp of shoes composed of felt and rubber, by cementing parts D, as shown in fig. 1 and fig. 2, to the vamp A, the whole being arranged as and for the purpose set forth. Witnesses:

NICHOLAS Lon'rAN, JOHN O. STRONG.

EEESEV EVANS. 

